Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:21:41 -0600 From: Gil Kloepfer <gil@arlut.utexas.edu> To: www@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Comments on your FreeBSD-based product Message-ID: <20020212152140.GA67412@arlut.utexas.edu>
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I wanted to forward this e-mail to the FreeBSD group responsible
for FreeVSD "evangelism" of sorts. The "www" address was the best
I could find. Just wanted to forward along that I've been letting
commercial software vendors know that their support for native
FreeBSD binary distributions of software is appreciated.
At the same time, I'd also like to mention our continued success
using FreeBSD for some of our more critical functions. It was
a difficult battle convincing my superiors to use FreeBSD
over a commerical OS like Solaris or a more popular open-source
OS like RedHat Linux. That battle still continues, but we have
successfully deployed over 7 FreeBSD systems here at ARL, which
cover critical functions such as DNS, time, e-mail gateways, NIS slave
servers, network monitoring, and some web-based support tools.
While the Linux groups have been concentrating on capturing the
desktop users with fancy install programs and configuration tools,
FreeBSD has concentrated on creating a lean (but complete), fast,
secure, and easy-to-administer server OS. I am not anti-Linux by
any means, but I do feel that the entire "feel" of FreeBSD
maintains the spirit of how the UNIX OS was meant to function and
be administered (using text-based configuration files located
in obvious places).
Thanks for the hard work in keeping FreeBSD what it is.
--
Gil Kloepfer - Network Support
Applied Research Laboratories : The University of Texas at Austin
(512) 835-3771 / gil@arlut.utexas.edu
----- Forwarded message from Gil Kloepfer <gil@arlut.utexas.edu> -----
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:06:24 -0600
From: Gil Kloepfer <gil@arlut.utexas.edu>
To: customerservice@sophos.com
Subject: Comments on your FreeBSD-based product
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i
Hello-
Several months ago our organization purchased your Sophos Anti-Virus
package for FreeBSD (License number {deleted}) to use
in conjunction with an open-source e-mail scanning package called
AMaViS (A Mail Virus Scanner, see http://www.amavis.org/) for
the UNIX-based sendmail e-mail transport.
I want to make you aware of how useful your product has been to
us since we purchased it back in December. We have successfully
escaped infection by the MyParty e-mail worm through your prompt
release of virus identities. We continue to escape infection from
a myriad of other viruses/worms on a daily basis through the
implementation of your product. With few exceptions, my department
has had overwhelming praise from the groups we support since
encorporating Sophos' sweep into our e-mail system.
The reason I am writing is to emphasize that while there is a
large group of people using Microsoft's Windows products and Linux,
there are also organizations like our's that utilize FreeBSD for
our main e-mail gateways. One of the key reasons for choosing your
product was its support for FreeBSD. Unfortunately we found it
difficult to explain to our salesperson here in the U.S. our
desire to purchase the FreeBSD-based product. In short, we would
like you to know that your continued support for FreeBSD and
other UNIX-based operating systems is greatly appreciated.
--
Gil Kloepfer - Network Support
Applied Research Laboratories : The University of Texas at Austin
(512) 835-3771 / gil@arlut.utexas.edu
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